Improvement in wash-boilers



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i Cuantas wgrowELL-,for etoourmtn; CONNECTICUT.

LettersPateut No. 112,627, dated March 14, 1871.

IMPROVEMENT mi wAsn-BolLERs.

. The Schedule referred to inuthese Letters Patent: and making p't ofthe same.

Totali whom fitmafl/ conce/rn Be it known that I,` CHARLES W". APOWELL,of Bloomfield, in the county of Hartford and State of Connection t, haveinvented a new and useful Improvep ment in Wash-Boiler; and I` do herebydeclare that fthe following-,isa full, clear, and exact descriptionthereof, which willuenableothers skilled lin the art to i makeanduse!thesamafreierence being had tothe accompanying drawingforming partot' this specication. p

This invention relatesto a new and useful improvement in`appaitusiforwashing' clothes, and consists in a framework, made ofperforated metal or woven =wire, constructed in site and shape to iitinto an ordinary wash-boiler, with slides and `water-Ways therein,arrangedas hereinaftermore fully described.

Inwthe accompanying drawing- Figure lrepresents a` verticallongitudinalV section of the apparatus taken on lthe line :t :t of `iig2r Figure-2 is a verticalcross section of the boiler taken on theline yy of lig. 1. i. 1

Figure 3 a modification of iig. 2, showing a--dif- Similar` letters of Vreference indicate corresponding frame or perforated Vcssel, i`n whichare Y he bottomfB offthis frame is open-work, except sing at the endsarIhe end piecesBf extend upto the` top oi' the )frame A,:the"shape fthejsame being 'seen in the cross sections. i i

The edges of these ends are"turned inward, so as to support slides, oneor more, on'one orboth of' the sides oi a form, to correspond with thecircles O Q,

. Between theends thereis au open space,.D," into which the water-in theboiler `rises and` is forced upward by the pressureof thesteam below,`and vis dscharged onto: the clothes through the dat tubes E E, Voreither of them. Y p' s p i F represents rings, which are attached to thecircular slides: There may he two sets of slides, and in this example ofmy invention I show two slides on each side, oneof which is perforated,and the .other made of whole tins,'or othersuitable metal, the latter ofwhich form the tubes'E E;

The clothes to be washed are placed. -iu the lboiler outside the circlesC O, so that the water which is raised will he dischargeddirectly ontothem, and de Ascend' to the bottom of the boiler to be again raised bythe steam, and so on as long as may be required for a thoroughvcleansing of the clothes.

A circulation is thus kept up through -the clothes, but whichcirculation may he regulated and controlled by removing or adjusting theslides, either one or both, ou either or both sides.

`Instead of having perforated slides, as described, therernayr be fixedperforated partitions with tin slides, `to which the rings are attached,as seen in ii f. 3.

,I do not couiie myself to any particular number or arrangement of theslides.

Having thus described my invention, Y

I elaimasnew and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. The'perforatedframe A, circles G O, open bottom' B, opelrspaoe D, and adjustable orremovable discharge-tubes E E, constructed and arranged with slides, tooperate substantially as and for the purposes described.

2. The combination of the perforated frame A with circular slides andremovable discharge-tubes, ar ranged substantially as and for thepurposes described.

rIhe above specification of my invention signed by me this day` of 1871.

CHARLES W. POWELL. Witnesses:

SIDNEY B. CorrrdN; FRANK B. GoL'roN, EDWARD-M. CoL'roN.

